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To: mr.mark who wrote (18883)	4/20/2001 5:25:54 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 110626

I received the new hard drive from Dell today (it was overnighted! The tech told me to expect it Mon. or Tues. of next week) then discovered that the old one was in fact 45 GB but was configured wrong by whoever built my PC at Dell. The caps (are they called jumpers?) weren't placed for primary master they were configured for something called "32 clip". I talked to 4 different techs about being shipped the wrong hard drive and none of them asked me to check the configuration on the hard drive. I reset my old hard drive to primary master then reinstalled it. I went into Setup which showed the hard drive to be 44.something gigs but when I checked it's properties in My Computer 31.4GB was still showing. I called and asked Dell what I should do. The tech told me to go ahead and use the new hard drive. I considered keeping the old ond too but I don't need a 2nd hard drive to be 45GB. If I do get a 2nd hard drive I'd just use it for images of my primary drive and for Windows Me. I'd use Win 98 on the primary drive. I asked Dell about using Win 98 instead of SE and was told that they wouldn't support Win 98 on my machine and that if I needed replacemnet hardware I had to run diagnostics from ME before they'd replace anything. For my use ME is just an unstable memory hog so keeping it on a small 2nd hard drive seems like a good idea. Oh, they also told me they would not support a petitioned hard drive with Me on one petition and Win 98 on the other. I've had a bad PC month but it's great to finally have everything working just right. If you weren't keeping score Dell replaced my RAM, motherboard, CPU and hard drive. It turned out the original RAM wasn't bad and the original hard drive might not be either but that's not my problem any more. Mark, If you didn't get Flooded yet it should come tomorrow or Monday.